MULTINATIONAL BODIES1
AIM
Originate and promote coordinated strategies that protect public health2 through food, nutrition, and physical activity
RECOMMENDATIONS
All multinational bodies:
Build the protection and maintenance of public health2 into all relevant agriculture, food, health, economic, trade, environmental, and other agreements
United Nations bodies:
Work together to ensure integrated policies among all relevant agencies
- Includes policy-makers and decision-takers in international political, economic, and trade bodies such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, the European Union, the North American Free Trade Association, the southern Latin American trade association (Mercosul) and others, as well as the United Nations (UN) and its constituent bodies. Key UN organisations include the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the United Nations Children's Fund, the United Nations Development Programme, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the World Food Programme, the International Labour Office, and many others. Also includes inter-UN bodies concerned with food and nutrition, notably the UN System Standing Committee on Nutrition and the Codex Alimentarius Commission. (For international civil society organisations and transnational industries, see Civil society organisations and Industry.)
- Includes the prevention of cancer and other chronic diseases. Thus, the
European Union, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World
Trade Organization, the Codex Alimentarius Commission, and other
multinational bodies, especially those whose decisions have the force of law or that are otherwise binding, need to incorporate protection and maintenance of public health as an invariable part of their work.
For more details see CHAPTER 8 of the Policy Report